https://github.com/lettier/dnsclient

A simple DNS client similar to nslookup. Does not use any DNS libraries.
https://github.com/lettier/dnsclient

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A simple DNS client similar to nslookup. Does not use any DNS libraries.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lettier/dnsclient
• Owner: lettier
• Created: 2014-01-08T21:57:38.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-02T04:58:53.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T04:51:00.752Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: bitstring, dns, dns-client, dns-library, network, network-test, network-tools, networking, nslookup, python, python3
• Language: Python
• Size: 51.8 KB
• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md

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# A Python DNS Client

This DNS client is similar in nature to `nslookup` or `host` but only deals with A records.

Note that this DNS client does not use any DNS libraries but rather works directly

at the [DNS protocol level](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197470).

# Quick Start

```bash

cd ~/Downloads

git clone https://github.com/lettier/dnsclient.git

cd dnsclient

virtualenv venv-dns-client

cd venv-dns-client

source bin/activate

cp -R ../src .

cp ../requirements.txt .

pip install -r requirements.txt

cd src

chmod +x dns_client.py

./dns_client.py lettier.com

```

# Copyright

_(C) 2014 David Lettier_  

[lettier.com](http://www.lettier.com/)